Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-462) and index

Beyond the search for sisterhood : American women's history in the 1980s / Nancy A. Hewitt -- The pocahontas perplex : the image of Indian women in American culture / Rayna Green -- Female slaves : sex roles and status in the antebellum plantation South / Deborah Gray White -- The widowed women of Santa Fe : assessments on the lives of an unmarried population, 1850-1880 / Deena J. Gonzalez -- Native American women and agriculture : a Seneca case study / Joan M. Jensen -- The domestication of politics : women and American political society, 1780-1920 / Paula Baker -- Women, children, and the uses of the streets : class and gender conflict in New York City, 1850-1860 / Christine Stansell -- Hull house in the 1890s : a community of women reformers / Kathryn Kish Sklar

Gender systems in conflict : the marriages of mission-educated Chinese American women, 1847-1939 / Peggy Pascoe -- Family violence, feminism, and social control / Linda Gordon -- "Charity girls" and city pleasures : historical notes on working-class sexuality, 1880-1920 / Kathy Peiss --I had been hungry all the years / Meredith Tax -- Working women, class relations, and suffrage militance : Harriot Stanton Blatch and the New York woman suffrage movement, 1894-1909 / Ellen Carol DuBois -- The social awakening of Chinese American women as reported in Chung Sai Yat Po, 1900-1911 / Judy Yung -- Womanist consciousness : Maggie Lena Walker and the Indepdendent Order of Saint Luke / Elsa Barkley Brown

Educating Indian girls at nonreservation boarding schools, 1878-1920 / Robert A. Trennert -- "It jus be's dat way sometime" : the sexual politics of women's blues / Hazel V. Carby -- "Go after the women" : Americanization and the Mexican immigrant woman, 1915-1929 / George J. Sanchez -- A promise fulfilled : Mexican cannery workers in Southern California / Vicki L. Ruiz -- The historical problem of the family wage : the Ford Motor Company and the five dollar day / Martha May -- Rape and the inner lives of Black women in the Middle West : preliminary thoughts on the culture of dissemblance / Darlene Clark Hine -- Disorderly women : gender and labor militancy in the Appalachian South / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

In search of unconventional women : histories of Puerto Rican women in religious vocations before mid-century / Virginia Sanchez Korrol -- The Black community and the birth-control movement / Jessie M. Rodrique -- The dialectics of wage work : Japanese-American women and domestic service, 1905-1940 / Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- Japanese American women during World War II / Valerie Matsumoto -- Oral history and the study of sexuality in the lesbian community : Buffalo, New York, 1940-1960 / Madeline D. Davis and Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy -- Ladies' day at the Capitol : women strike for peace versus HUAC / Amy Swerdlow -- The development of Chicana feminist discourse, 1970-1980 / Alma M. Garcia -- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Sears, Roebuck and Company : a personal account / Alice Kessler-Harris

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